Friday, May 31, 2024

More Solar Imaging... night imaging to come!

 

















Taken with a monochrome 5 megapixel camera on an 8" SCT Meade LX200GPS with a Baader solar filter and a 2X Barlow len.s

Of these two groups, AR3697 is the returning sunspot group that caused the major aurora event earlier this month. Here's where they were loacted on the solar disk (from spaceweather.com):

 


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